[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #45869] finish.m fails to save current workspace, assumes empty workspace

[Tasos Papastylianou]

URL:
  <http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?45869>

                 Summary: finish.m fails to save current workspace, assumes
empty workspace
                 Project: GNU Octave
            Submitted by: tpapastylianou
            Submitted on: Thu 03 Sep 2015 13:51:00 GMT
                Category: Octave Function
                Severity: 3 - Normal
                Priority: 5 - Normal
              Item Group: Incorrect Result
                  Status: None
             Assigned to: None
         Originator Name: Tasos Papastylianou
        Originator Email: 
             Open/Closed: Open
         Discussion Lock: Any
                 Release: 4.0.0
        Operating System: GNU/Linux

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Details:

Assume you have a finish.m file with the following instruction:


save myoctavesession -binary


Exit (thereby running the finish.m script before octave terminating), restart
octave, and (assuming you're in the same directory as before) load this file
again:


load myoctavesession


You will find that nothing has been saved.

The reason is that "finish.m" is called by __finish__.m which is a function;
therefore, when "finish.m" is called, the current workspace is the empty
workspace of the __finish__.m function, "not" the base workspace. 

Converting the __finish__.m function to a script resolves the issue.





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